Horse-collar fastener



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W L. FRIES.

HORSE GOLILAR FASTENBR.

.No. 290,673. Patented'Dec. 25, 1883.

NiTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM L. FRIES, OF MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HORSE-COLLAR FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,673, dated December 25, 1883.

Application filed October 3, 1883.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM L. FRIES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milton, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Fastening Device for Horse-Collars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to horse-collar fasteners; and the objects of my improvements are, first, to produce a device capable of readily fastening the ends of the collar; second, to provide by this means for having approximately a flush surface throughout the length of the fastener, except the projecting lug; third, to dispense with a buckle and the tedious method of operating it; and, fourth, to attain these ends with simplicity of construction. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a horse-collar having my invention in position,

and Fig. 2 is a detail view of the fastener.

Like letters refer to corresponding parts.

a is the inner end of the fastener, which is preferably shaped parabolically to facilitate insertion under the leather, as shown in the sectioned portion of Fig. 1.

22 represents the entire plate, which constitutes the fastening device.

0 is a hole in the upper end of the plate or fastener, by which that end is riveted to the leather.

(2 is a lug or projection, which may either be rigid or have a swivel-bearing in the plate, terminating in a round, oblong, or other shaped head, 0, attached thereto or integral therewith.

f is a strap, attached to the other side of the collar, in which a slotted perforation is out.

(No model.)

9 is a band or strap transversely encircling the collar under which the end of the strap f is placed after the slot h therein has engaged the lug d.

i represents the bent portion of the plate I), which permits of having the end of the strap f, when fastened, approximately flush with the upper surface of the plate, the strap naturally following its contour.

The operation is as follows: The sharp or parabolic end a is inserted or forced into the leather, which holds that end of the plate. A rivet is then passed through the hole 0 and clinched. The strap 9 is placed in position. The device is then ready for use, and the slot h in the strap f may be passed over the head 6 of the lug (Z. If this lug or its head is in a swivelbearing, the head may then be turned transversely to the strap but this is not nec essary, as the rigid lug and head shown on the drawings will suffice to retain the strap f.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

In horse-collar fasteners, the combination, with a strap, f, attached to one end of the collar, having a slotted perforation, h, therein, and a strap, 9, encircling the collar trans versely near the otherend, of a plate, b, bent to form two parallel planes in different altitudes joined by a surface, i, perpendicular to both, the lower plane terminating in a point, a, the upper one having a rivet-hole, 0, near its end, and a headed lug, d, inserted in its center, for the purpose herein described.

WM. L. FRIES.

Witnesses:

M. FRIEs, H. E. ANGSTAD'I. 

